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A Ham Sandwich (ROUGH)
When I was / Probably five years old / I bit into a sandwich
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Nov 12, 2010
All Blue
Steeples scraping at the tired blue sky / A little boy with bright blue eyes / A blue bug flies up a lady’s dress
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Nov 12, 2010
A Man Named Roy G. Biv (Children's Poem)
Red is the color of apples so delicious / Orange is the color of oranges and fishes / Yellow is the color of the sun in the sky
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Nov 12, 2010
An Ugly Man's Sonnet
An ugly man with crooked teeth and eyes as sharp as knives / Goes forth with axe to chop the trees, and end all of their lives / The plants they scream and raise their voice, then calm as he begins
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Nov 14, 2010
Bars and Bones
Oh, how I would love to trap you inside of me / Perhaps beneath that cage that is my ribs / Behind those bars that are my bones
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Sep 22, 2011
Bodies and Waves
A brooding mess / Of bones and flesh / The caressing tide, a soft set of fingertips
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Dec 5, 2010
Bookmark
I kept the pages of your heart / Bookmarked / Knowing that one day I’d lose my place
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Sep 22, 2011
Bowl Of Soup (Children's Poem)
A carrot escapes his spoon / as he eats his soup alone / The table is set for two
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Nov 12, 2010
Cupid's Hangover
Cupid’s vomit must be candy hearts and colored cards / His rough night must end in heaving twisted over the toilet bowl, boxes of chocolates and caramels dumping into its porcelain chamber / Naked, he probably limps into his canopied room
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Feb 7, 2011
Dido Revisited
I watch a lost warrior – Dido’s Aeneis / Wandering, a lost lamb / Protruding from the earth, a sore thumb
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Nov 12, 2010
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